What are Your Phobias? - Time for Some Group Therapy.

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I have true acrophobia. It is completely irrational, I am completely unable to control it, and as far back as I can remember I've always had it. I have never fallen from a significant height, etc... so it's definitely not founded in any actual traumatic incident. I've asked my parents, siblings, other relatives if they were aware of anything I may not be able to remember, but no one is aware of anything happening that could be related to this.

An IRL example of this is I agreed to fix a soffit on the roofline of the house of a woman I was dating. As I was climbing up the ladder, having no conscious issue with what I intended to do, my legs started shaking uncontrollably, and it got worse the higher up I went. I was unable to stop this unwanted movement until I had both feet planted firmly on the ground.

Another IRL example is when I was going somewhere with some friends. The parking lot for the place was across the street, and the only way to get to the location was to cross a walkway that spanned a very busy 4 lane highway. There was no indication that the walkway was untrustworthy. It was well constructed and in good repair. As soon as I started to walk across it I was unable to make myself continue to walk further. I had an intense feeling of abject terror despite there being no obvious source of potential danger. Not wanting to keep everyone back I was able to consciously force myself to move forward slowly until the 1/2 way point of the walkway. At that point my legs were shaking so badly that I could barely stand. The terror was so severe that I was right on the edge of a complete mental breakdown and just fainting right on the spot. Fortunately my friends realized something was seriously wrong. They came back to ask me what they could do and I was barely able to tell them I needed them to essentially drag me standing to the other side while I had my eyes closed and I would probably be ok. They were able to do so, and as soon as I was on the other side I was perfectly fine.

You probably wonder why it has happened to me more than once. It's essentially because being a rational person I absolutely refuse to let something that has no rational basis in reality stop me from doing something, even though it probably will. It's more being a stubborn asshole that refuses to give in than anything else.
 
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I have a irrational and severe fear of snakes. If I see a snake on TV i physically recoil and try to make distance. If I see a snake in a article in picture form, I physically avoid touching the picture or getting my fingers close to the picture.

I beat resident evil 4 only once because snakes after the church level scare the FUCK out of me.

Tl;dr- snakes suck
 
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omniphobia, very specifically the DSM-V symptom of a "vague and persistent dread of some unknown evil", which is actually the best way I can describe it to others. I can be sitting there, totally happy (of which I frequently am very happy), and suffer an sudden Attack of completely random and irrational abstract dread. It's like my fear receptors get randomly activated in very peculiar ways. All my life it has caused me to imagine the most terrifying images, fates, creatures. These also manifest themselves as closed-eye hallucinations and extreme vivid nightmares which I have often.

it's not debilitating or anything, and more of a nuisance in my adult life. while definitely not something I can control or "get used to", I Have tried my hardest to embrace and harness it for creativity purposes. beyond my cats though I don't share my artwork with anyone. I make it for reference and to try and understand myself better.
 
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omniphobia, very specifically the DSM-V symptom of a "vague and persistent dread of some unknown evil", which is actually the best way I can describe it to others. I can be sitting there, totally happy (of which I frequently am very happy), and suffer an sudden Attack of completely random and irrational abstract dread. It's like my fear receptors get randomly activated in very peculiar ways. All my life it has caused me to imagine the most terrifying images, fates, creatures. These also manifest themselves as closed-eye hallucinations and extreme vivid nightmares which I have often.

it's not debilitating or anything, and more of a nuisance in my adult life. while definitely not something I can control or "get used to", I Have tried my hardest to embrace and harness it for creativity purposes. beyond my cats though I don't share my artwork with anyone. I make it for reference and to try and understand myself better.
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You need an existential detective.

Nyctophobia, fear of the dark, I have a constant fear that something's always near
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Maybe something is always near.



Everything I fear is rational, and knowing that makes it worse.
 
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Providence said:
You need an existential detective.
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I'd be too afraid that I would hire him and he would just go missing after entering the tangled woods of my psyche. Then I wouldn't be able to get my money back (and also have another dead body rotting away somewhere in my mind)
 
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Needles, I overpowered 5 nurses trying to vaccinate me when I was like 10, they had to give up and try again another day. And while I'm no longer fighting nurses I still am horrified by needles.
 
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